My Plum Baby

Today, I'm 12 weeks and 5 days. I am so close to my second trimester I can smell it! This time around has been pretty different than when I was pregnant with Alex. Everybody keeps telling me that it's because I'm having a girl, but I just think it's because this time around I have a 1 year old to take care of!

I'm due April 21st, 5 days before Alex turns 2 and I REFUSE to be in the hospital for his 2nd birthday. Mental note: must get Dr. K on board with this plan as well!

Emotionally, I'm excited and a little in denial about the whole thing. I can't wait to have a newborn in my arms again. But, I'm also in denial about the decisions that have to be made before the little one comes. Such as, will my work situation stay the same? Will daycare stay the same? What about our bedroom situation??? Some questions are more important than others, but all relevant questions, right?

I still have a good 6 months to figure this stuff out, so right now I'm just focusing on making it through each day (waiting and dreaming of the second trimester "babymoon").

Updates & Random Pictures

So, I've been terrible about updating our blog since we moved into our new house! I wish I could say I've been spending our time organizing, decorating, and the like, but I can't! We've been busy with BBQ's, weddings, birthdays, and the list goes on. I have been able to get a few pictures along the way so I'm finally posting them. Do not judge me, each of these pictures came from my BlackBerry! We have a better variety of quality pictures on our Mac at home, but when am I ever on that computer?? Never.


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Yesterday we got up early and headed to the Zoo for the morning! We hit it just right. Got there right as it opened up and didn't have too many people to compete with near all the animals. We got to see the Elephants wake up and get their morning treats, and got to see the Lions wake up for a quick yawn, then fall back asleep on the huge sun rocks they were sunbathing on. Alex LOVED it. I love that he's old enough now to recognize the animals.












Off to the beach for the day! I always forget how great it is there. It took Alex a few minutes to get used to walking on the sand, but by the end of the day he loved it so much he was even trying to put fist fulls of sand in his mouth!







Pool party in the backyard!







Loves!!





With Great Grandpa Guillory (GGG), watching the cars go by...




Soon to be camping buddies.





Bathtime!




This is how he woke up one morning. I'm thinking he was a little uncomfortable!




Getting ready to help Mama paint.

Home Sweet Home

We have finally moved! After 3 offers, and 2 rejections, the third time was a charm, and I'm very happy with how everything turned out. Here is a quick picture of our new place!



As of now we still have boxes everywhere in the garage but the house it looking better and better each day. We definitely need to paint but other than that we don't have to do anything on the inside. Which feels great, considering we've lived in a fixer-uper for over 3 years. Gussie is loving our new back yard and antagonizing the neighbor dogs already. And Alex is enjoying all the new places to explore!

Happy Birthday Baby Boy

It all started a year ago today. My water broke at 3am and I haven't slept since... j/k! I love my little boy so much it hurts. Watching him turn 1 is very exciting and very sad at the same time. I miss the tiny tiny person that I held for hours upon hours. But I also love the boy he's growing into, so happy and curious. I'm not super sentimental, but I'm pretty sure I won't make it through this 1st birthday without crying.


















Thanks to my amazing cousin, Shonda Barlow Photography, I now have a new family photo, 1 year later.

Alex

Does this look familiar to anybody...


Thanks Whit ;)

Updates..

Although the first few months of the year always seem to take the longest due to the weather, we've been super busy lately!

Right now we are in the middle of selling our home, planning Alex's first birthday (ahhh, 1 year already) and just finished our visit with Uncle Casey who was home on leave from Afghanistan.

More updates to come shortly! =)